Historian in Training
It has been an AGE since I last updated this project blog. Prepare for a long update. Luckily, much has happened! I finished my first year of graduate school, but I also made some breakthroughs with the Dunlaps. Just to recap, in the last episode I was trying to piece together the deed path of…
I am realizing that I have taken a lot of resources for granted on the sole basis that in the past I have studied well-known topics. When you’re dealing with macro-level institutions or well-studied historical figures (or even people adjacent to well-studied historical figures), there’s often a lot of digitized content, previous scholarship, and online…
When I was eighteen and in my senior year of high school, the local government tore down a 180-year-old home in my home town. Now, however, Dunlap has been on my mind.
Here we are at the end of the semester. It doesn’t quite feel real yet, but I’m sure it will as soon as my deadlines start rolling around for my final papers. In a truly reflective fashion, I decided to return to my first blog post of the semester, which was an attempt to answer…
I would first like to preface this with my experience in art history is limited to one (1) survey course I took in undergrad on art history from ancient to medieval and my mild obsessions with both Alphonse Mucha and impressionism. I like being an artist, but the history of art is something that I…
Ethics and algorithms are one of those conversations that can stretch on and on for hours and never hit an irrelevant topic (or, at least, it did for us). A lot of what we discussed has come up in class before, specifically surrounding digitization. It is easy for us, as historians, to forget that many…
Considering I had no idea what network analysis was when I decided to do this optional module, I’m pretty happy with what I’ve learned. In reading the articles on network analysis, I found it most interesting that a methodology intended for concrete fact has been applied to interpretation-based studies like those in the humanities. The…
This past week offered a valuable module for our group project. As we are planning on doing GIS work to show ethnic distribution and create interactive maps with combination text and images, the visualization of data is something that we need to be aware of. In saying that, I am realizing how many considerations one…
So I started this week thinking I was going to do the Art History optional module, but…I didn’t. I switched to Text Encoding instead, and I’m glad I did. No joke, as soon as I started the readings for this module I developed this creeping feeling that I had never actually really used a computer…
Understand me when I say that this has been one of those modules that I’ve been looking forward to for the whole semester. The advent of my video game career began with Dragon Age: Origins (the Ultimate Edition, thank you very much) in high school and then spiraled from there. I became very attached to…
